February 4, 2019

Viira 6.0 for Android is almost ready for general availability, and we thought we’d give you a sneak peak in what the new release of Android has to offer.

Key in this release are the organizational improvements in the Day View: you will see a nicer layout and a more intuitive calendar and reminder selectors.

The Overdue Tasks area has also been enhanced. You will see a dedicated menu for the Overdue Tasks giving you a number of one-tap power features, such as moving all your overdue tasks for today or marking them all as completed.

Under the hood, version 6.0 includes a number of significant sync and architectural enhancements which our engineering team has been working on over the last little while. Although not immediately visible these “building blocks” will form the underpinning of future updates and enhancements!

And here are some screenshots from the very-soon-to-be-available release:

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January 25, 2016

Like all other apps Viira for iOS is connected to the cloud and can sync with all other Viira apps via the Viira Cloud Sync service.

The Viira for iOS offers the same experience, workflow and core feature set as Viira for Android and Viira for BlackBerry - this is intentional. In addition to what is already familiar to many of you we have introduced a few exciting new capabilities that our team has been able to make possible on iOS.

1. Email Tasks

Yes, you can create email tasks directly from Viira on your iOS device! Email task creation is available from the Email Tasks view as well as by tapping the Attachment button when opening a task for edit.

Under the hood, Viira retrieves your email messages directly from your mail server using IMAP. To help you set up email access quickly we have pre-loaded the default mailserver configurations for popular email services such as GMail, Outlook.com, Hotmail.com, Yahoo! etc.

We have harnessed the power of iOS to give you a quick and intuitive way to reorder tasks within any task list, be it project, context, day view, next actions or the in-basket. Simply select Edit and reorder the tasks as you see fit, for example to reflect priority or completion order.

3. Quick Add Panel

You can add tasks quickly from the Viira dashboard. The Quick Add panel gives you the option to assign a project, context, date or even reminder to a new task - directly from the main screen, in one step!

4. Rich Notifications

Viira’s task reminders integrate with the iOS native notifications making it easy to open the task containing the reminder or perform quick actions such as Snooze or Mark Completed.

Joining The Beta

To join the Viira for iOS beta program please send us an email at support@kartamobile.com and we will send you a TestFlight invite as soon as we have test slots available.

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Many of you asked for a faster way to create email tasks - and our team delivered. With version 5.5 of Viira you can quickly create email tasks directly from the Hub via Share! You can similarly create new contact tasks directly form the Contacts app.

The new Email Tasks and Contact Tasks views (also available in the Viira Outlook Add-In and PC App) offer a dedicated area for email and contact task management to help you stay on top of your emails and contact-related commitments.

*(Both our Viira and Viira for MS Outlook apps offer identical features and capabilities. We maintain two app entries solely for legacy and marketing reasons. Please continue to use whichever app you are already using).

If you have installed a previous version of the Viira Outlook Add-In or PC App you will need to uninstall it first by going to Control Panel->Programs. Your local Viira data will remain intact during the re-install.

List Of All New Features in Version 5.5 of Viira on BlackBerry 10

Create Email Tasks Directly From The Hub. Add email tasks to Viira directly from your Inbox as they arrive! Simply select Share from the menu and then select Viira as the target app. Email tasks in Viira maintain a link to the email that they are associated with and you can view the original by clicking Open Email.

Create Contact Tasks Directly From Your Contacts App. You can similarly create a contact task directly from your Contacts app by selecting Share->Viira. Contact task maintain a link to the associated contact and you can view the full contact’s details by selecting View Contact or place a call or start an email by clicking Call and Email, respectively.

New Email Tasks View. To help you manage your email to-dos and stay on top of your email we have added the new Email Tasks view. All email tasks automatically go to the Email Tasks view. You can search, reorder and prioritize your email tasks by assigning next actions, just like any other view in Viira. The Email Tasks View is also available in the Viira Outlook Add-In and PC App.

New Contact Tasks View. The new Contact Tasks view helps you add a touch of CRM to your GTD system. In it you will see all contact-related tasks. You can search, reorder and prioritize by assigning next actions. The Contact Tasks View is also available in the Viira Outlook Add-In and PC App.

Automatic Task Sorting: Next Actions Always On Top. Viira always tries to help you focus on what is important first. Tasks flagged as next actions now always appear at the top of any task list. Next actions also appear at the top of the new Email Tasks and Contact Tasks views.

Automatic Task Sorting: Completed Tasks Pushed To The Bottom. To help you focus on what remains to be done completed tasks now automatically get pushed down to the bottom of any task list .

BlackBerry Passport, OS 10.3 Support. Viira is fully compliant with the new BlackBerry Passport and OS 10.3. We have graphically re-designed some areas of Viira to fit the Passport’s large screen size, theme as well as 10.3 OS.

Viira Outlook Add-In Updates: Quick Access, Fast Email Task Creation
In addition to the newly introduced Email Tasks and Contact Tasks tabs, we have also updated the Viira Outlook Add-In to make it easier to access it and perform key actions:

Quick, Intuitive Launch. You can now launch the Viira Outlook Add-In directly from the Home tab in the Microsoft Outlook ribbon interface. This feature is available on Outlook 2010 and 2013

Quick Email Task Creation. You will see a new Create Email Task button when you go through or read your emails. Clicking this button creates a new email tasks.

Quick Contact Task Creation. Similarly to email task creation, you will see a new button called Create Contact Task. The button is visible when you are in the Contacts area in Outlook

Here is how the new Viira Outlook Add-In shortcut buttons look like on the MS Outlook ribbon under Email and Contacts, respectively:

The Viira PC App has also been updated to include the new Email Tasks and Contacts Tasks tab.

October 5, 2014

We just released a minor software update with a few updates worth mentioning. Here is what is new:

Support for the new BlackBerry Passport. If you are one of the early adopters and already sporting the new BlackBerry Passport, we have you covered. The latest version of Viira is now fully compatible with BlackBerry’s latest devices

Support for OS 10.3. Even though OS 10.3 is not officially released for the remaining BlackBerry 10 devices such as the Z10, Z30, Q5 and Q10 we know many of you are running beta/leaked builds. As of version 5.4.5 Viira is now fully compatible with OS 10.3.

Theme compatibility with Q10, Q5 devices. We restored Viira’s signature blue theme to some Q10 and Q5 devices on which some areas of Viira were previously showing in the default dark theme.

Auto-scroll on quick add. When entering tasks in one after the other using Viira’s quick add component Viira automatically scrolls down to the newly added task if the screen is already full with other tasks

Support for non-Gregorian calendar (Outlook Add-In and PC App). The Viira Outlook Add-In and PC App function properly on systems that don’t use the Gregorian but instead use alternative calendars popular in some parts of the world such as the Islamic Calendar.

July 25, 2014

We just released released version 5.4.1 of Viira for BlackBerry 10, the Viira Outlook Add-In and the Viira PC App. The release introduced deeper calendar integration on your BlackBerry 10, introduces better performance on Outlook as well as stability improvements for Outlook 2013 and contains a few bug fixes

Here is what is new in version 5.4.1:

Viira for BlackBerry 10

Deeper Calendar Integration: you can now delete and edit an existing calendar event directly from the Viira Day View

Bug fix: Calendar events in Day View always appear sorted by starting time, with the earlier ones first

Bug fix: creating a calendar appointment from the Viira Day View create the appointment under the calendar specified Settings

Bug fix: Backup/restore correctly backs up and restore task, project and context notes. Backup/Restore also correctly backs up/restore email and file task attachments.[This is a good place for a reminder that the Backup/Restore only applies to those who use Viira as a standalone app on their BlackBerry 10. Those who use the Viira Sync Service have automatic cloud-based backup]

Viira Outlook Add-In

Stability improvements for MS Outlook 2013and Windows 8. We have addressed the Outlook 2013 Add-In limitations so that the Viira Outlook Add-In works smoothly on Outlook 2013 in particular in combination with Windows 8/8.1.

September 29, 2013

Those of you who have BlackBerry devices provisioned with BES and BlackBerry Balance are familiar how your BlackBerry is separated into two areas: Work and Personal. Both areas are kept separate by the BlackBerry 10 OS in order to keep your enterprise data secure and at the same time give you the ability to install whatever apps you want.

This post explains how to install Viira on your Work partition so that you can have Viira integrate with your work email, calendar, contacts, etc. and applies to all of you who have a BES-managed BlackBerry device.

When you install Viira BlackBerry World normally installs in your Personal area. In order to be able to install Viira under your Work area just send Viira’s BlackBerry World URL to your IT/system administrator (the person who manages your BlackBerry deployment in your organization) and request that Viira gets added to your BlackBerry World for Work area. Here is Viira’s BlackBerry World URL: http://appworld.blackberry.com/webstore/content/21745483.

Once Viira gets added to your organization’s BlackBerry World for Work you will be able to go to the Work area in your BlackBerry World app and download Viira from there.

The process of adding Viira to BlackBerry World for Work is very easy, your IT/system adminstrator just needs to copy and paste the URL in right place in the BES management console. Viira has earned the Built For BlackBerry certification which signifies it has passed BlackBerry’s stringent vetting process and it delivers the signature BlackBerry experiences, so your IT person should not have any concerns about adding it to your Work area.

A Note On Licensing

Our licensing allows you to use Viira on both Work and Personal at the same time. You might find this useful if you want to keep separate personal and work-oriented GTD systems and you can have that with Viira installed on both partitions.

If you have purchased Viira already you can also use your existing license key to activate Viira on both partitions.

If you have any questions or need further assistance with this don’t hesitate to reach out to our support staff and we will be more than happy to help out!

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September 22, 2013

We just released version 5.2 of Viira for BlackBerry 10 which contains a feature that many of you have requested a lot over the past few months: the ability to associate a task with an email. Many of you who used Viira for BlackBerry OS found this feature indispensable for staying organized and being on top of your email and we are glad to be able to bring it in Viira!

Here are is the full list of new feature additions to the Viira feature set in version 5.2:

Email Tasks. Organize your email by adding an email to any task in Viira. You can then organize your email task and file it in a project, context, day, flag it as a next action or even add a reminder to it. Similarly to adding a contact to a task (available since version 5.1), to add an email to a task open the task, click on Add Attchment, then Email and select the email in the list. You can preview the email you are about to add via a long tap. The fast search field is there to help you quickly find the email you were looking for.

Hide Completed. A productivity booster, hiding completed tasks makes it easy to focus on what remains to be done. The “Hide Completed” menu option is available in all major Viira views and you can view your completed taska again by selecting “Show Completed”

Backup/Restore. You can now backup your Viira data to a file on your SD Card for an extra peace of mind. To achieve an extra level of cloud-based backup you can backup your data to your Dropbox folder and Dropbox will automatically save your Viira backup file to the cloud and replicate it to your other computers and devices on which you have set up Dropbox.

Inbasket Reordering. The “Reorder Tasks” panel is now available in the Viira In-Basket as well, enabling you to prioritize your incoming and unassigned tasks.

This release also contains a number of other small additions, tweaks and fixes so make sure to check it out! You can download the latest version of the Viira free trial from BlackBerry World. For those of you who already have the full version you can update to the latest version from here.

And here are some screenshot of how the big new feature in Viira 5.2, email tasks, looks like:

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July 28, 2013

The latest software update to Viira for BlackBerry 10 brings a lot of exciting capabilities which we hope many of you will find useful and help you stay organized in your day-to-day lives. These features make good on the promise we made earlier this srping to bring every feature in Viira for BlackBerry OS available on BlackBerry 10 (and also on Android, that’s coming next month).

Here is what is new in Viira 5.1 for BlackBerry 10:

Reminders. Every task in Viira for BlackBerry 10 can now have a reminder. Reminders are associated with a system-level reminder event and will appear in your BlackBerry 10 Calendar.

Contact Tasks. You can now manage contacts, customers and key relationships and integrate them in your portable GTD system. Attaching a contact to a task is easy: just open the task and click on the “Add Attachment” button. It is like adding a touch of CRM to your GTD system.

Task Reordering. Being able to prioritize tasks has been a key capability in Viira for BlackBerry OS and we are pleased to bring it to BlackBerry 10. You can reorder the tasks in any project, context, day as well as in the Next Actions view by selecting “Reorder Tasks” from the menu. Then use the touchscreen control and reorder the tasks as you see fit! (see screenshot below)

You can download the latest version of the Viira free trial from BlackBerry World. For those of you who already have the full version you can update to the latest version from here.

You will notice that clicking on “Add Attachment” also lists a number of other attachments types that we are working on making available shortly, such as images, files and most importantly email messages. We are very excited about this productivity capabilities that new attachment types can bring so stay tuned!

And here are some screenshots of how the latest version of Viira looks on BlackBerry 10:

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June 13, 2013

We are happy to announce that our team has made the necessary changes to make Viira for BlackBerry 10 available on the much-anticipated BlackBerry Q10 smartphone. The changes were needed largely in order to make Viira fit within the Q10 screen size (720×720 compared to the Z10’s 1280×768 screen) and to fit within the Q10’s font, layout and visual style.

The software update is available in verison 5.0.7 of Viira for BlackBerry 10 which we submitted for BlackBerry World approval moments ago. It should be available for download within 24 to 48 hours, depending on how long it takes for BlackBerry World to process the update and start distributing it.

Viira On The BlackBerry Q10

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